When a wife killed, dismembered and cooked her husband in a Hong Kong flat
- Ma Kit-chee ‘cut him into chunks with a saw and put the bits into a cooking pot and boiled them dry’, the South China Morning Post reported in 1988
- Said to have been suffering from schizophrenia, Ma ended up in a mental hospital after being convicted of manslaughter
“Police yesterday charged a 58-year-old woman with killing her husband by dismembering his body and cooking the pieces before throwing them into the rubbish bin,” reported the South China Morning Post on April 3, 1988.
During the trial of Ma Kit-chee, details of what happened weeks earlier at the couple’s home in Kornhill Garden, a then newly built private estate of 10 high-rise apartment blocks in the Quarry Bay neighbourhood of Hong Kong Island.
According to a September 29 Post article, Ma enlisted her brother and two other men to rob her husband, Fu Tong, on February 21. When he refused to give them HK$200,000, he was tied up and left.
“The next afternoon she made him congee and he got a hand free. There was a fight and he struck her in the head with the congee bowl so she said in fear she got a hammer and struck him until he was dead.”
She then “cut him into chunks with a saw and put the bits into a cooking pot and boiled them dry. Other parts, like his hands, arms and feet she said were baked in the oven. She said she cooked six or seven pots both at night and during the day.” The remains were later placed in plastic bags and disposed of in bins throughout the building.